Print the raw value of a column alone, in pandas?

Question

I have a dataframe:

df = pd.DataFrame([ { \'name\': \'george\', \'age\': 23 }, {\'name\': \'anna\', \'age\': 26}])

Now I want to retrive Ge

Answer 1

Might as well make my comment an answer:

df[df.name == 'george'].age.values[0]

or

int(df[df.name == 'george'].age)

should work